Medical clinics in Singapore are carrying out female genital cutting on babies, according to people with first-hand experience of the procedure, and despite the growing global condemnation of the practice that world leaders have pledged to eradicate. The ancient ritual — more commonly associated ...

At least 200 million girls and women in 30 countries are estimated to have undergone female circumcision — half of them in Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia, the U.N. children’s agency said in a report released Thursday night. The UNICEF statistical report said the global ...